Cold War Cubans

I was delighted to take on the painting for Miska Miniatures' latest Kickstarter project: Red Dawn Revolution. It features an interesting selection of Cuban troops from the Cold War era.

Anyone interested in this era will find that Cubans offer many exciting options for very different skirmish scenarios. After all, Cuban troops were deployed in South America, Africa, and even the Middle East.

Link to the Kickstarter campaign, which will go live in fall 2025.

After the infantry, I will paint a Ural truck including six passengers for the project in the coming weeks and present it here.

Another glorious day in the Corps - Assets and Hazards

Another commission for the Aliens boradgame Another glorious day in the Corps by GF9.

Michi has painted the set of scenery to replace the cardboard markers from the game. These were the last gaming pieces to paint for the game - there  aren't any more expansions to date.

These pieces are really nice and in scale with the Bug hunt corridors that Michi uses for his own AvP: The hunt begins game, so Michi considers to buy some for his own too.

 

AvP: The hunt begins/Bug Hunt Corridors - the final section

Michi has scratchbuilt the missing crossing section for one of the ten scenario layouts of Aliens versus Predator: The hunt begins. The cardboard floorplans which came with the game were replaced by 3D sections made of lasercut plywood (Bug hunt corridors kits by now defunct Fantasy Arc from 2014).

Games Workshop made plastic floor tiles for Necromunda which Michi used to turn into airducts for the AvP game. Now Boneshop offers similarly designed lasercut MDF kits to build matching floor tiles with variable surfaces. Michi bought a set and converted it into a square room with a floor grating of Fenris "Sulaco" floor cut into shape.

The walls were painted with the same Revell 55 whitish green that was used for the scratchbuilt plastic airducts, although the weathering was much more intense this time to display a really worn machinery section. Entrances are magnetized and cut to size to match the Bug hunt corridors sections.

 

Another glorious day in the corps: Real and unreal men - Biologische und synthetische Menschen

Michi hat die nächsten Figuren aus den Erweiterungen bemalt. Diesmal sind es ein paar menschliche, sowie Bishop, der Synthetische.

Von links nach rechts wären das:

Beschädigter Bishop, unbeschädigter Bishop, Carter Burke; Ellen Ripley im Caterpillar Powerloader, Ellen Ripley mit Rebecca "Newt" Jorden auf dem Arm, Daniel Spunkmeyer und Collette Ferro.

Weitere Colonial Marines müssen noch bemalt werden...

Michi has painted the next batch of miniatures from the expansions for the boardgame. These are some biologial humans and a synthetic person.

From left to right:

Damaged Bishop, undamaged Bishop, Carter Burke; Ellen Ripley in the Caterpillar Powerloader, Ellen Ripley holding Rebecca "Newt" Jorden, Daniel Spunkmeyer and Collette Ferro.

More Colonial Marines are yet to be painted...

 

South American Guerrilla

South American guerrillas from 'Black Hills Games'.
Since it is supposed to be an irregular troop, a motley crew of fighters, I decided against an identical color scheme. Instead, I tried to use current camouflage patterns used in Latin America and clothing colors of various rebel groups of the last decades.

For the photo background, I experimented for the first time with texture rollers on air-drying clay to get a jungle-temple look.

The People of Zanganie

In collaboration with 'Miska Miniatures' I painted their Kickstarter campaign 'Zanganie Part 2' which will start at the end of April. If you are interested in the models, you can find the link to the KS project below.

Painting only civilians was a nice change. The figures of course fit very well to the already released ranges of Miska, but also to all other modern African scenarios.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/miska-miniatures/zanganie-part-2-vox-populi-28mm-stl

 

 

 

Private Military Contractors

In co-operation with 'Black Hills Games' I painted a unit of Private Military Contractors and a HVT that they have to protect.

The STLs of the miniatures were provided by 'Black Hills Games' and printed on a Mars2Pro.